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Book 20 (of 52) – An Anonymous Girl

An Anonymous Girl – Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen

When a struggling makeup artist finds her way into a study on morality, she thinks she’s found an easy way to supplement her income.  Instead, she finds herself opening up in ways she never imagined, putting herself in situations meant to test the strength of the study’s leader’s marriage.  When she learns the truth, she finds herself in the middle of a marriage that is breaking apart, one which already has a death toll.  But who should she trust: the cheating husband that she has already slept with or the wife that brought her in to the “study” in the first place?

An Anonymous Girl, the second collaboration between Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, is an improvement over their first, in that it doesn’t beat around the bush for the first half of the book to get the story moving.  Things move at a good pace from the start, and the tension rises to a satisfying climax.  This author team has a third offering out and I’ll be sure to be on the lookout for it at a reasonable price on the Kindle store.

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2020: The Year In Books

As we wrap up 2020, a year where I should have been setting records due to the pandemic and stay at home orders, I managed to read only 23 books, a decrease of 5 books over last year.  Of those 23, 8 were non-fiction and, of the 15 novels, only 2 were tied to a TV show.  None of the books came out of my dwindling “to-read” drawer and 15 were e-books.  I read just over 7,800 pages, my seventh highest total of all time.

For the first time in years, a majority of the books I read this year were by authors I have read before. The 11 authors that I read for the first this year were:

  • Ken Harrelson
  • Jeff Snook
  • Liz Phair
  • Megan Abbott
  • Greer Hendricks
  • Sarah Pekkanen
  • Cameron Esposito
  • Rich Lindberg
  • Sara Schaefer
  • Alex Trebek
  • Trevor Noah

Tom Perotta, Erle Stanley Gardner, and Karin Slaughter were the only authors that I read multiple titles from during 2020.

6 of the books I read were released this year, while 5 of them were released last century, with the oldest first published in 1933.

Finally, the breakdown by month.  My vacation to Hawaii in February and being off in December certainly helped pad its totals a tad bit. Continue reading →

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Book 6 (of 52) – The Wife Between Us

The Wife Between Us – Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen

In The Wife Between Us, authors Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen introduce us to two women, Vanessa and Nellie, and the man they share between them.  As Vanessa deals with the tatters of her life following the end of her relationship, Nellie prepares for her upcoming wedding.  But, twist, they are actually the same woman!  Now that their, or her, ex is moving on to a new fiancé, Vanessa decides to warn her of the dangers awaiting her, even if it means putting herself back in danger.

My feelings on the book are sort of split.  Prior to the big twist, I was quickly losing interest in where things were going.  Or not going.  After the twist, things started to pick up, but I feel like too much time was spent getting there.  Overall, I guess I would say I enjoyed the experience, but I feel like there was an opportunity to tighten things up which would have made it more enjoyable.

I see that there is another offering from this author team out in the world.  I guess I saw enough here to give it a chance, if I come across it at a reasonable price on the Kindle store.